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A protracted-established ‘Wealthy Village’ close to Songhae-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
A glass of makgeolli and soju for 1,000 gained
Free snacks akin to bindaetteok and corn
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For 1,000 gained, you’ll be able to get pleasure from a drink and a snack. /Photograph=Reporter Kim Younger-ri “Actually, the day is simply too lengthy. I can not management the time. The aged want someplace to go. They stand right here for an hour beneath the pretense of getting a drink , after which later going to Tapgol Park and mendacity down on a bench goes to be.”
12pm on the twenty second. Lee Baek-ho (pseudonym, 66), whom I met at ‘Wealthy Village’, a bar positioned subsequent to Tapgol Park in Jongno-gu, Seoul, stated, “I am already ready for the second time at the moment to drink makgeolli.” Mr. stated Lee, who lived on the streets for 18 years and stated it was two years since he lived in a close-by gosuwon, “Do not ask me concerning the previous,” and added, “I used to eat kimchi. and rice offered by the gosiwon, after which stopped on the wealthy village and spoke to my older brothers, “My pleasure,” he stated with a bitter smile. Bujachon is a ‘bar’ that has been standing subsequent to Songhae-gil in Tapgol Park, Jongno for 17 years. For 1,000 gained, you get a full glass of soju and makgeolli. Snacks like bindaetteok and pickled radish are free to alleviate abdomen ache. With its beneficiant hospitality and timeless costs, it is named the lounge for the aged.
A slender however overflowing place
‘Bujachon,’ a small drink restaurant positioned close to Tapgol Park in Jongno-gu. /Photograph=Kim Younger-ri Reporters Village has been doing enterprise on Songhae-gil subsequent to Tapgol Park for over 17 years. Contained in the restaurant, marble haejangguk, rooster gomtang, and pork soup are bought for six,000 to eight,000 gained, and within the nook of the store, like a takeaway cafe, there are solely glasses of alcohol are bought individually. It’s a form of ‘shop-within-a-shop’, like a nail store on the aspect of a giant magnificence salon. The proprietor of a store with indoor seating is completely different from the proprietor of a bar. Mr Jeon is a bar proprietor and runs the store by paying a lease of round 500,000 gained per thirty days.
Within the wealthy village I visited that day, Cho Yong-pil’s ‘Mona Lisa’ was enjoying. In a slender house of about 2 pyeong (about 2 pyeong), the proprietor of this store, Jeon Myeong-yeon (72), was pouring drinks for patrons. Mr. stated Jeon, “That is the one place on this neighborhood the place you’ll be able to drink with pleasure whereas receiving 300,000 gained in tremendous pension,” and “People who find themselves in monetary bother come right here after having a meal in a soup kitchen free. You sit right here, you’ll be able to hear numerous folks’s tales. “He defined As I left Jongno 3-ga Station, there was a line of older folks ready to have a meal on the soup kitchen. /Photograph = Reporter Seong Jin-woo The general public who go to Wealthy Village are aged. Some folks drink alone to alleviate loneliness others got here with pals of the identical age. The worth of the 1,000 gained was completely different for every of them. Some folks drank alcohol for 1,000 gained for an hour, whereas others drank 2,000 value of alcohol in a single minute. Jeong Sang-gil (78), a ‘common’ we met that day, launched himself as “an export employee who labored as a growth workforce chief at a automobile firm when he was younger.” Mr. Jeong complained, “It is all a factor of the previous, and I do not really feel properly anymore, so it is arduous to exit into the mountains.” He went on to say that he visits the wealthy village every single day, saying, “Like Napoleon Cognac in France, the so-called ‘Yi Solar-sin Cognac’ is not only a glass of makgeolli.”
There was additionally a buyer who drank two cups of makgeolli in a row in lower than a minute and left in a rush. Kang In-gu (53) runs a store within the close by space. He joked, “If I am thirsty after I cross, I cease by and have a drink or two. If I eat extra, I will not be capable to work,” and he went again to his enterprise.
As Mr. Jeong left, gave the president one other 1,000 gained, and positioned a boiled egg within the reporter’s hand. Then he laughed and stated, “Reporter, it’s possible you’ll not know this, however that is the tradition right here.”
The Cupboard assembly voted to permit the sale of alcohol by the glass, however long-established retailers responded, “No.”
Jeon, the proprietor of the wealthy village, involves work right here every single day by 7 within the morning. /Photograph=Jinwoo Seong Reporter Village’s every day gross sales are about 50,000 gained. Mr. Jeon has been operating this place for 4 years. Mr Jeon, who has bother shifting, takes the primary prepare from Nokbeon-dong each morning to keep away from the crowds at work. He emphasised, “If you wish to earn a living, you’ll be able to’t promote liquor.” It’s defined that even on days when the enterprise is open till 6 pm and there are lots of prospects, it’s troublesome to make greater than 100,000 gained in gross sales.
He stated, “It is value it to serve alcohol at a low value to the aged who come right here,” and added, “I can not let go of my job after I see aged folks with tight pockets shopping for alcohol for his or her one another.” He added, “Nonetheless, it has just lately change into standard by phrase of mouth, and even younger folks go to on weekends.”
Final March, the Ministry of Technique and Finance revealed the ‘Modification to Decree Enforcement of the Liquor Licensing Act’, which permits the sale of alcoholic drinks in eating places and bars, and the modification was handed on the Cupboard assembly on the twenty first of this. month. The sale of alcoholic drinks is allowed as early as this week. Below the present liquid tax legal guidelines, the sale of alcoholic drinks in empty containers was prohibited, so in circumstances akin to rich villages, it might be thought-about unlawful.
Like Mr Jeon, close by self-employed folks responded indifferently to promoting liquor. A dealer in a close-by store famous, “If we promote glasses of alcohol, we are able to solely acquire labor prices,” and “desk turnover will even lower.” Lee Eun-hee, professor of client research at Inha College, predicted, “It is likely to be inconvenient for suppliers to promote alcohol by the glass, however because the regulation comes into impact and client demand begins to develop, eating places that small sale of alcohol. parts will seem.” He continued, “Nonetheless, gross sales of liquor by the glass will broaden additional, specializing in high-end liquor akin to whiskey and Kaoliang liquor, which may cost a excessive value for a glass of drinks like now.”
Kim Younger-ri/Seong Jin-woo, Hankyung.com reporter smartkim@hankyung.com
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